Country Info
- Vientiane
- Capital
- Kip (LAK)
- Currency
- 5,635,967
- Population
- LA
- Country Code
Dondet Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dondet, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Relaxing and Dolphins
This is a top pick! After relaxing in Vientiane we decided to chill out some more and head south to the islands of Si Phan Don – the southern most tip of Laos. The 2 reasons to come here are to do nothing and to see the Irrawaddy Dolphin's that are in the area between ...
Bribing your way to a Laos visa
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 165 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Hot and humid and thundery evenings It's official. It is now possible to get a Laos visa on arrival from Cambodia…yay! We were picked up from our hotel along with Helen and Nick ...
Will we ever leave Laos?
This is a top pick! ... Laos was similar to our first - a small place with no roads and sleeping in a wooden bungalow over the river. However Dondet island is nothing like the peaceful tranquility of Muang Ngoi. Its full of irritating Westerners who spend the whole day shouting ...
Me Julie/Happy Birthd...
This is a top pick! ... mile and a half (with large bags on backs and sweating intensely) and the guy running it is a straight scouser married to a Lao lady. Boo. Although not quite the characters we were hoping for this guy does a pretty good turn of entertaining us ...
4000 Islands - serious relaxation
This is a top pick! So we arrived on Don Det at sunset - the first choice you have to make on the island, is whether to stay on the sunrise or sunset side - we opted for sunset as it just seemed like it would be a bit cooler... We made our way along the sunset side, ...
Lao-ging Around
This is a top pick! ... Eventually they got on, we set off, ended up going down quite a few dirt tracks etc. Got to the port for the boat to DonDet at about 6? something like that, it hadnt been sunset yet. The Spaniards were unable to barter the boat price down so we all ended ...
Thundering Waterfalls and Riverside Beaches
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 166 Temperature : Same, Same Weather : Sunny mornings, cloudy afternoons Had a long lie this morning. Absolute bliss. We sauntered down to the nearest café for banana pancakes on the river. Kevin's chocolate and banana ...
Overland from Lao to Cambodia--The Boat Mafia
This is a top pick! Well, the overland (well, overriver, really) border crossing from Lao into Cambodia was every bit as do-able as I'd heard and read about on the net. And just as frustrating and mentally taxing. You have to cross the river from Lao immigration in order ...
4,000 islands of lazy fun (and pork)
This is a top pick! ... I didn't get a decent shot of either as they are only heavily promoted in northern tourism towns but here goes anyway. Beer Lao - adorning a T shirt of just about every traveller that passes through the country, this is a great beer and a great brand. ...
Confessions
This is a top pick! Somehow, or for some other reason, we decided to buy a trip from Kratie, to Stung Treng, then jump in a boat, and by 13:00, we would be over the border. The last time we had done this was back in Albania, and we had been stuck at the border for over nine ...
Across the border to Laos - Don Det
This is a top pick! We got dropped off by a boat on Don Det, one of the islands under the title of 'Four Thousand Islands' and started trying to find somewhere to stay. This was made a bit difficult by not knowing where we had been dropped off and other backpackers we met ...
Laos at Last - 4000 Islands
This is a top pick! ... White circle and the red and blue stripes are swapped. Laos is actually a communist country or I believe Laos full title is Laos Peoples Democratic Republic. 13:43 Not long after the border we got to a place where we walked our bags past some buses ...
Famous Five Get Roast Lunch
This is a top pick! 09:45 I woke several times in the night for my sparrow bladder and this involved trudging out of my hut to the nearby other hut to the squat toilet. The last time I did this was Mongolia, so at least I didn't have to 'dress' to go outside. Our hut is ...
kayaking is not for me.
Again, I've to write in the past tense but from now on our updates should be more frequent. So we decided to mix it up a bit and instead of busing it to the 4000 islands, aptly named as it is a group of islands in the middle of the Mekong at the ...
Sabaidee
As of Today I have officially been traveling 2 months. In those 2 months I've been to 3 different countries. It's so strange when you think of it in those terms. I just finished a little over 2 weeks in Laos. So before researching South East Asia like ...
Paradise
Today I arrived on the island Don Det after a short bus ride of only 3 hours. Don Det is supposed to be the backpackers island and low coast.Even though prices also went up here but I found a nice Greece compagnon. Her name is Konstantina. She works ...
The Journey from Cambodia to Laos
Sompong kindly gave us a lift from Yaklom Hill Lodge down into Ban Lung town ready for the 7.30am mini-bus to Stung Treng, which finally left at 8.30am with our bags (wrapped in their fluorescent yellow waterproof jackets) on the roof. The dirt road was ...
Jour 28
Debout 7H30. Comme nous ne voulons pas passer par une agence pour rejoindre directement Siam Reap, car les forfaits proposés sont à 18-20$ et on est sur de pouvoir le faire moins chèr. Donc bateau avec tout le monde il y a peu près 40 touristes avec ...
Cambodia and the start of Laos
Sat 7th August After leaving Siem Reap we moved on to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. This is the place worst hit by the Khmer Rouge. It was pretty boring to say the least. We visited the S21 Toul Sleung prison / museum which ...
Don Khon
Kristina found this place ages ago and we'd decided that we just had to stay here - despite the shockingly high room rate (US$30 for a night!!!). It's a 6 room hotel with restaurant built on 4 rafts on the Mekong. We left our backpacks at the Kham Phong ...
Island Life Laos Style
... few paces away) for a liquid supper of lao lao cockatils mixed with beer lao and a fierce card game of gin rummy. Beer lao is good and cheap, but the lao lao cocktails stole the evening. Lao Lao is the local brew and it really isn't very ...
eine insel mitten im mekondelta
Don Khon – 4000 Islands, Laos After an awesome journey, most luxuriously air conditioned and thouroughly relaxed undertaken in a minibus, organised from the trusworthy guesthouse, we arive at our destination at the mound of the Mekong, far south, ...
4000 Islands
... Tag radel ich nach Don Khon. Auf dem Weg zur anderen Insel muss man Don Det erst mal ueberqueeren und sobald man aus dem Touristen-Zentrum heraussen ist, ist es eigentlich eine schoene, ruhige Insel. Um auf Don Khon zu gelangen, muss man eine Bruecke ...
Laos, Laos and more Laos!
Bus from phnom phen was a little late arriving at the border town 50km from the border post. We hopped into the awaiting car and sped towards the border post. Unfortunately we didnt make it on time and arrived after "closing" time. The border control ...
River Island...Not the Shop!
Well the bus ride to Si Phan Don certainly lived up to my expectations...what few I had. We were basically rammed into a tuk tuk that had some wooden boards down the middle and forced to sit between about 30 or so local people as literally the only white ...
4000 Islands, 2 Bikes and 1 Sunday Dinner
... stay 7 nights and leave on Monday the 18th. So we had 6 days to enjoy Don Khon relax and un-pack. During our travels through Lao we have had to move every two days due to a tight schedule and a poor bus network. It was reliving to finally stop for ...
Relaxing in the 4,000 islands, Southern Laos
I took a 10 hour 'VIP' sleeper bus from Vientiane to Pakse in Southern Laos and met some English girls and Irish chaps, who were sharing two person beds next to me. Having heard stories of sharing beds with rather rotund locals (the beds were ...
The Island
From Ban Lung we tooka minibus across the Cambodia/Laos border. Only the first half of the journey was in a local minibus and at StungTreng we borded one with just four other people (two of which were our French friends from the jungle trek) so we ...
Life is but a dream.... Swinging in a Hammock
At the base of Laos, the Mekong widens (at the widest it is 14km across during the rainy season) with hundreds or thousands of emerald islands dotted in between. Most of these islands are merely sandbars that appear during the dry season, but then no-one ...